Japanese Teaching Topic - GEOGRAPHY
Teaching ideas, art and craft, flashcards, games, lesson plans, songs, videos, useful websites, worksheets on the Japanese teaching topic GEOGRAPHY nationalities, nations, countries, maps, flags, chiri, chizu, ちり、ちず etc.
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Activities in class
Nationality stack
Divide the class into pairs. Give each pair a copy of nationality cards. Students put the cards face down on their desk in a pile. They pick a card at a time, if the card they pick is their nationality the student says eg. オーストラリアじんです。 if it isn't their nationality the student says the sentence in the negative eg. ドイツじんではありません。 
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Board games
Countries and nationalities board game
Practice asking and answering questions about various countries and nationalities. How to play: If a student lands on a flag they say the corresponding nationality/country. If a student lands on two numbers they find the two squares corresponding on the game board and ask if they are from the country from the first number and respond with no and say the nationality of the second number. If they land on a question mark and a number, the student asks where they live and respond with the corresponding number's country. (Sample dialogues are on the game board.)
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Flashcards
Country and Nationality Flashcards
16 different country flashcards. Useful for teaching nationalities and introductions.
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PowerPoints
Countries Powerpoint
PowerPoint introducing countries vocabulary, also question and answers for asking about nationality. 
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Videos
The nations of the world
Japanese song with the nations around the world. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-duMe6zmdY&feature=related |
Websites
Interactive Japanese map
http://www.japantravelinfo.com/imap/flash.html Use this interactive Japanese map to learn more about places around Japan. |  |
Listening to Japanese city names
http://www.coscom.co.jp/mapofjapan/japanesemap-e.html Interactive map where you can listen to the names of major cities in Japan being read out by native speakers. |  |
Neighbourhood maps
http://www.bento.com/gmaps/mapindex.html Tokyo neighbourhood maps showing restaurants and other places of interest. |  |
Subway maps (Tokyo) http://www.bento.com/platform.html |  |
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Worksheets
Countries in Katakana
Students read the Katakana for various countries around the world and then write the name of the country in English. (Answers included.) Donated by Margaret F.
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Countries in Katakana
A worksheet to go together with the flashcards above. Students write the katakana for countries and then guess the missing country. Donated by Crystal K.
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Geography Worksheets |  |
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Nationalities reading
Read about various people and their nationalities. Donated by Anna Y.
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World mapping activity
Put the names of the countries onto the world map. Donated by Anna Y.
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